{"id":4090,"date":"2010-07-07T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2010-07-07T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T15:32:02","slug":"wednesday-various-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4090","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s as I always suspected: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/man-dies-during-screening-of-eclipse,42822\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_film\"><i>Twilight<\/i> will kill you<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Heaven knows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/\">Kaleidotrope<\/a> contributor Genevieve Valentine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/eclipse-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-twilight-empire\">isn&#8217;t a fan<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The good news is that if you are seeing a <i>Twilight<\/i> movie to mock it, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll feast every time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Fab Faux&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brianstorms.com\/2010\/06\/set-aside-18-minutes-sit-back-and-enjoy.html\">live cover of <i>Abbey Road<\/i><\/a> raises a really interesting question: what <i>is<\/i> the difference between a really great cover band and a classical orchestra? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/kriswrites.com\/2010\/06\/09\/janis-ians-welcome-home-for-true-fans-everywhere\/\">Janis Ian covers herself<\/a> (with a few tweaks) for this year&#8217;s Nebula Awards. [<a href=\"http:\/\/eddvick.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"Edd Vick\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, also meanwhile, all those covers on <i>Glee<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/balkin.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/copyright-elephant-in-middle-of-glee.html\">would probably get the school in a lot of trouble<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>These worlds don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t match. Both <i>Glee<\/i> and the RIAA can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be right. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to imagine glee club coach Will Schuester giving his students a tough speech on how they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do mash-ups anymore because of copyright law (but if he did, it might make people rethink the law). Instead, copyright violations are rewarded in <i>Glee<\/i> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d after Sue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>Physical<\/i> video goes viral, Olivia Newton-John contacts Sue so they can film a new, improved video together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as I always suspected: Twilight will kill you. Heaven knows Kaleidotrope contributor Genevieve Valentine isn&#8217;t a fan: The good news is that if you are seeing a Twilight movie to mock it, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll feast every time. The Fab Faux&#8217;s live cover of Abbey Road raises a really interesting question: what is the difference between &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4090\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,156,4,83,14,15,31,17,10],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-beatles","tag-copyright","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-legal","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-sci-fi","tag-tv","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}